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* ShoutOut: The cover of the album is a reference to "The Boy Scouts Of America Handbook 1960" official handbook, illustrated by Creator/NormanRockwell.
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* ShoutOut: The cover of the album is a reference to "The Boy Scouts Of America Handbook 1960" official handbook, illustrated by Creator/NormanRockwell.Creator/NormanRockwell, albeit with a few minor changes (a skeleton hand, torn up pant legs and a crab/lobster in his backpack, among other things).
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* ShoutOut: The cover of the album is a reference to The "The Boy Scouts Of America Handbook 1960 1960" official handbook, illustrated by Creator/NormanRockwell.
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!! We're all tropes now, you know...
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!!We're all tropes now, you know...
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* ConceptVideo: "Little Girls". Where [[Music/DannyElfman Danny]] hangs out with [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal little people]] and little girls.
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* AdultsAreUseless: "Only a Lad" is about a psychopath called Johnny whose increasingly violent acts are excused by the grownups around him because of his young age. In the song's final verse, the song's narrator grows fed up with this lenience and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech finally tells Johnny to go burn in hell]].
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* AdultsAreUseless: "Only a Lad" is about a psychopath called Johnny whose increasingly violent acts are excused by the grownups around him because of his young age. In the song's final verse, the song's narrator grows fed up with this lenience their inability to do anything and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech finally tells Johnny to go burn in hell]].
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* AdultsAreUseless: "Only a Lad" is about a psychopath called Johnny whose increasingly violent acts are excused by the grownups around him because of his young age. Towards the end, the song's narrator is fed up with this lenience and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech finally tells Johnny to go burn in hell]].
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* AdultsAreUseless: "Only a Lad" is about a psychopath called Johnny whose increasingly violent acts are excused by the grownups around him because of his young age. Towards In the end, song's final verse, the song's narrator is grows fed up with this lenience and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech finally tells Johnny to go burn in hell]].
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* AdultsAreUseless: "Only a Lad" is about a psychopath called Johnny whose increasingly violent acts are excused by the grownups around him because of his young age. Towards the end, the song's narrator is fed up with this lenience and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech finally tells Johnny to go burn in hell]].
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A Date With Rosie Palms is no longer a trope; besides there's no context
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Nasty Habits" is about this.
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* BlackComedy: Most of the album falls under this, but "Little Girls", which is sung from the point-of-view of a pedophile, stands out.
* PrecisionFStrike: "What the hell do you know about suffering and pain, you dumb fuck?" in "Capitalism" is the only instance of cursing on the whole album, and the instrumentation even briefly stops to emphasise it.
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* SocietyIsToBlame: The reason why Johnny was bad.
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* SoapboxSadie: "Capitalism" is about the narrator getting extremely irritated at one.
-->You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain\\
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
* ShoutOut: The cover of the album is a reference to The Boy Scouts Of America Handbook 1960 official handbook, illustrated byCreator/NormanRockwell
Creator/NormanRockwell.
* SocietyIsToBlame:The reason why Johnny was bad."Only A Lad" is about a violent sociopathic young boy who keeps getting away with literal murder based off of this excuse.
-->You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain\\
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
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* VillainProtagonist: "Little Girls", which is sung from the point of view of a pedophile. "Only A Lad" is also about a unrepentant, violent sociopath named Johnny, though the song isn't technically sung from his point of view.
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--->'Til they get home
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--->Turn the phone off, lock the door and shut the curtains
--->Make sure that the neighbors are without suspicion
--->No one will know
--->No one will know
--->Cup of coffee, friendly conversation
--->'Til they get home
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--->Make sure that the neighbors are without suspicion
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** Of course, knowing the rest of this album being filled to the brim with piercing satire, it could easily just be making fun of capitalists.
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** and later...
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1. "Little Girls" - (3:44)
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3. "On the Outside" - (3:39)
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5. "You Really Got Me" (Music/TheKinks cover) - (4:40)
6. "Only a Lad" - (3:56)
7. "What You See" - (3:43)
8. "Controller" - (3:24)
9. "Imposter" - (2:59)
10. "Nasty Habits" - (4:06)
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# "Little Girls"
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# "Perfect System"
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# "On the Outside"
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# "Capitalism"
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# "You Really Got
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* ConceptVideo: "Little Girls". Where Danny Elfman [[Music/DannyElfman Danny]] hangs out with [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal little people]] and little girls.
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KarmaHoudini: Johnny in "Only a Lad" gets away with arson, theft, assault, and vehicular manslaughter because the judge believes it's society's fault he's such a psychopath. However, the narrator predicts - or at least hopes - that Johnny will go to Hell when he dies.
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* KarmaHoudini: Johnny in "Only a Lad" gets away with arson, theft, assault, and vehicular manslaughter because the judge believes it's society's fault he's such a psychopath. However, the narrator predicts - or at least hopes - that Johnny will go to Hell when he dies.
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Only A Lad is the debut album of [[NewWaveMusic New-Wave]]/[[SkaPunk Ska-Punk]] band, Music/OingoBoingo. Released in 1981, the album features a bunch of topics such as living in a {{Main/Dystopian}} world (Perfect System), being [[{{UsefulNotes/Capitalism}} pro-capitalist]] (Capitalism) and others. |It also features a cover of Music/TheKinks "You Really Got Me".
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[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oingo_boingo_only_a_lad.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300: Only a lad, you really can't blame him. Only a lad, society made him. Only a lad, he's our responsibility. Oh, oh, oohh oh oh oh! ]]
Only A Lad is the debut album of [[NewWaveMusic New-Wave]]/[[SkaPunk Ska-Punk]] band, Music/OingoBoingo. Released in 1981, the album features a bunch of topics such as living in a {{Main/Dystopian}} world (Perfect System), being [[{{UsefulNotes/Capitalism}} pro-capitalist]] (Capitalism) andothers. |It other topics. It also features a cover of Music/TheKinks "You Really Got Me".
[[caption-width-right:300: Only a lad, you really can't blame him. Only a lad, society made him. Only a lad, he's our responsibility. Oh, oh, oohh oh oh oh! ]]
Only A Lad is the debut album of [[NewWaveMusic New-Wave]]/[[SkaPunk Ska-Punk]] band, Music/OingoBoingo. Released in 1981, the album features a bunch of topics such as living in a {{Main/Dystopian}} world (Perfect System), being [[{{UsefulNotes/Capitalism}} pro-capitalist]] (Capitalism) and
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* KidsAreCruel: The title track, where it tells a story of a boy named "Johnny""Johnny" who shoots a lady in the leg, commits arson and murder.
* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Nasty Habits" has this line:
---> Do you peek at magazines
---> Filled with doggies and leather queens?
---> Do you peek at magazines
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* TitleTrack: "Only A Lad".Lad".
* WhiteGuilt: "Capitalism" is, in part, about this.
* WhiteGuilt: "Capitalism" is, in part, about this.
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Me".
* FishOutOfWater: "On TheOutside"
Outside".
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* FishOutOfWater: "On The
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---> There's no reason to wear a frown
KarmaHoudini: Johnny in "Only a Lad" gets away with arson, theft, assault, and vehicular manslaughter because the judge believes it's society's fault he's such a psychopath. However, the narrator predicts - or at least hopes - that Johnny will go to Hell when he dies.
---> There's no reason to wear a frown
KarmaHoudini: Johnny in "Only a Lad" gets away with arson, theft, assault, and vehicular manslaughter because the judge believes it's society's fault he's such a psychopath. However, the narrator predicts - or at least hopes - that Johnny will go to Hell when he dies.
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* PyroManiac: Johnny had other interests... [[SuddenlyShouting HE LIKE TO BURN THINGS!]]
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* TakeThatCritics: "Imposter"Imposter" is basically this, where it depicts critics as [[StrawCritic stuck-up]] and failed artists because they had no talent to begin with.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms:
* BeingWatched: "Controller" is about this,
* CapitalismIsBad: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for the song "Capitalism.
* BeingWatched: "Controller" is about this,
* CapitalismIsBad: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for the song "Capitalism.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms:
ADateWithRosiePalms: "Nasty Habits" is about this.
* BeingWatched:"Controller" "Controller", where the narrator is about this,
getting paranoid because of this.
* CapitalismIsBad: [[AvertedTropeAverted]] Surprisingly averted]] for the song "Capitalism."Capitalism", where it's about how capitalism is not bad and how there is nothing wrong with it.
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---> And I know that you love me too
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HappinessIsMandatory:
KidsAreCruel: The title track, where it tells a story of a boy named "Johnny"
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PyroManiac: Johnny had other interests... [[SuddenlyShouting HE LIKE TO BURN THINGS!]]
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KidsAreCruel:
--->People act so proper when they're going 'bout their business
--->Cup of coffee, friendly conversation
--->'Til they get home
--->'Til they get home
--->Turn the phone off, lock the door and shut the curtains
--->Make sure that the neighbors are without suspicion
--->No one will know
--->No one will know
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*FishOutOfWater: "On The Outside"
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*SuddenlyShouting: Music/DannyElfman does this alot.
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3. "On the Outside" - (3:39)
4. "Capitalism" - (3:40)
5. "You Really Got Me" (Music/TheKinks cover) - (4:40)
6. "Only a Lad" - (3:56)
7. "What You See" - (3:43)
8. "Controller" - (3:24)
9. "Imposter" - (2:59)
10. "Nasty Habits" - (4:06)
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Only A Lad is the debut album of [[NewWaveMusic New-Wave]]/[[SkaPunk Ska-Punk]] band, Music/OingoBoingo. Released in 1981, the album features a bunch of topics such as living in a {{Main/Dystopian}} world (Perfect System), being [[{{UsefulNotes/Capitalism}} pro-capitalist]] (Capitalism) and others. |It also features a cover of Music/TheKinks "You Really Got Me".
!!! Were all tropes now, you know...
!!! Were all tropes now, you know...
